Director
Katherine A. Skinner
Assistant Professor
Dr. Katherine A. Skinner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Robotics at the University of Michigan. She holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. Prior to this appointment, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering and the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received an M.S. and Ph.D. from the Robotics Institute at the University of Michigan, and a B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with a Certificate in Applications of Computing from Princeton University. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award.
Email: kskin (at) umich (dot) edu
Team Members
Current PhD Students
Advaith Sethuraman
PhD Candidate, Robotics
Email: advaiths (at) umich (dot) edu
Jingyu Song
PhD Candidate, Robotics
Email: jingyuso (at) umich (dot) edu
Anja Sheppard
PhD Candidate, Robotics
Email: anjashep (at) umich (dot) edu
Onur Bagoren
PhD Candidate, Robotics
Email: obagoren (at) umich (dot) edu
Yiting Zhang
PhD Candidate, Robotics
Email: yizhang (at) umich (dot) edu
Pou-Chun (Frank) Kung
PhD Candidate, Robotics
Email: pckung (at) umich (dot) edu
Spencer Carmichael
PhD Candidate, Robotics
Email: specarmi (at) umich (dot) edu
Seth Isaacson
PhD Candidate, Robotics
Email: sethgi (at) umich (dot) edu
Current Postdocs
Elena Shrestha
Postdoc
Email: eshresco (at) umich (dot) edu
Current MS Students
Jack Wischmeyer
MS Student, Robotics
Email: jmwisch (at) umich (dot) edu
Jinjia Guo
MS Student, Robotics
Email: jinjiaguo (at) umich (dot) edu
Yi Liu
MS Student, ECE
Email: yiliuhh (at) umich (dot) edu
Current Undergraduate Students
Former Students
Razan Andigani, MSE Robotics, ROB 590/690 Directed Study
João Felipe Costa Casares, MSE Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, Graduate Research Assistant
Chelsea Sun, BSE Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, NA 490 Directed Study
Allison Du, BSE Computer Science, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
Devin Kilbourn, MSE Robotics, ROB 590 Directed Study
Yiming Luo, MSE Electrical and Computer Engineering, ROB 590 Directed Study
Carissa Bush, MSE Robotics, ROB 590 Directed Study
Wuao Liu, MSE Robotics, ROB 590 Directed Study
Yuliang Zhu, MSE Mechanical Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering, Graduate Research Assistant
Yiting Zhang, MSE Mechanical Engineering, ROB 590 Directed Study
Cigdem Kokenoz, MSE Robotics, ROB 590 Directed Study
Sean Hickey, BSE Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jason Brown, BS Aerospace, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Ph.D. student at Stevens Institute